SINGER-SONGWRITER Diana Vickers has posed for a series of racy pictures for a popular lads’ mag.

The former Blackburn Westholme School student was labelled a ‘little hippie’ by X Factor judge Louise Walsh when she appeared on the talent show in 2008.

But the 22-year-old star looks to have shed that image after posing seductively in a pair of blue knickers, a white crop top emblazoned with the words ‘lost my mind’, and very little else.

She told her 370,000 followers on social networking site Twitter: “So I did an FHM cover shoot for this month’s issue... Eek!”

Speaking to the magazine, Diana, from Huncoat, said she was ‘scared about taking her clothes off in front of everyone’ and she doesn’t see herself as a sex symbol.

She said: “I know it’s part of my job to be sexy. I just don’t really think of myself as that.”

Diana has returned to the UK, and the music scene, recently after she moved to South Africa to shoot a movie with Clint Eastwood’s son, Scott.

Her second album, Music to Make Boys Cry, was released in September to rave reviews.